WHEN IMPOSTER SYNDROME HITS ME HARD
“I think you’re holding back your opinions in our team meeting, Milena.”
I did not see this feedback coming.
We were in a team-building session on sharing constructive feedback. And what my colleague said completely took me aback.
I snapped, half-laughing to conceal my defensiveness: “I’m not sure if this is the case.”
It’s not that I held back in team meetings! I wanted to make sure what I said was valuable. Okay… sometimes I over thought it too long; the team moved onto the next topic.
But hey, isn’t that what considerate people do?
I was working in The Netherlands among some of the brightest young minds from 20 countries worldwide. Coming from a small developing country like Vietnam, I felt like an underdog.
Of course, my inferior feeling was self-imposed. I was the only person who saw myself that way. But I had no idea back then.
𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐞.
During that time, Imposter Syndrome hit me hard. But it had always been with me since I was small, like a shadow. And it took many years to free myself from it.
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